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• Meghan Markle gives Aritzia a boost after Invictus Games dress choice

  29-09-2017 20:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VANCOUVER - Actor Meghan Markle gave fashion retailer Aritzia a boost after donning a dress sold by the Canadian company during the Invictus Games, where royal watchers hotly anticipated her ......
  
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• Hell's bells! Britain to get less bong for its buck in Big Ben blunder

  29-09-2017 19:50
  LONDON (Reuters) - Renovations that will silence the Big Ben bell in the British parliament's famous clock tower for four years will cost more than double the original estimate, officials said on...
  
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• Rich colours dominate the runway at Paris Fashion Week

  29-09-2017 19:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Soirees merged from night to day as design houses Nina Ricci and Issey Miyake showed off colour-rich creations in Friday's installment of celebrity-filled Paris Fashion Week.Here are some ...
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ recipe for fig, dark chocolate and brandy cake

  29-09-2017 18:00
  Soft figs, dark chocolate, toasted nuts and a big slug of brandy have their individual attractions, but put them all together and you have one seriously barnstorming cakeAre you the kind of person whose pupils start to dilate at the very idea of chocolate – you know, the dark kind that causes that blissful surge of endorphins as it melts on the tongue and hits the tastebuds? And what about figs? Soft, luscious figs with their soft, pink interiors… Mmmmm. Now what
  
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• Eyeball tattoos could lead to blindness and severe infections, doctors warn

  29-09-2017 17:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Medical professionals and body artists say the practice of tattooing the eyeball, which recently left an Ottawa woman facing the prospect of vision loss, is on the rise ......
  
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• Let’s move to Boscastle, Cornwall: fine views and fishermen’s cottages

  29-09-2017 17:30
  Forget the flood of 2004: this little town has lost none of its power to delightWhat’s going for it? Some places are synonymous with unhappy events. But as time passes, the notoriety usually fades. (Who now remembers the 19th-century Penge Murders? Exactly.) Boscastle has recovered from the devastating flash flood that poured into the valley – gosh, was it really 13 years ago? No doubt the night of 16 August 2004 is still scoured on the memorie
  
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• The great cover up: 50 coats for women – in pictures

  29-09-2017 17:01
  Autumn is in the air, and what better way to mark the new season than by getting a new coat. From faux fur to mustard to padded to PVC, here are 50 of the best Continue reading...
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Company Below’s recipe for Feel Good Ink

  29-09-2017 17:00
  A Soho speakeasy’s pick-me-up to bring a warm glow to the end of your working daySo named because a couple of these are guaranteed to make you, er, feel good, no matter what the working day has thrown at you. Serves one.1 egg white
  10ml lemon juice
  20ml tequila (we use Arette Blanco)
  20ml Campari
  15ml dry white vermouth (Noilly Prat or similar)
  10ml sugar syrup Continue reading...
  
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• 'Dirty Chinese Restaurant' game denounced as racist by U.S., Ont. politicians

  29-09-2017 16:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  A Toronto-area company's upcoming video game called "Dirty Chinese Restaurant" is being denounced as racist, but the business says its product is meant as satire.Big-O-Tree Games says the game — ...
  
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• My mother died a year ago and I’m worried I will have to support my father

  29-09-2017 16:00
  My fiancee and I recently had a baby and I think this has made me reflect on my parents’ loveless marriage. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy father is a generous if simple man who goes to work, the pub or home. He doesn’t have any friends outside of these places. He has no hobbies or friends. He is two years away from retirement and I have no idea what he will do when he does. I am in my 30s and my sister is in her late 20s. Our mother died last year. Our parents were rarely phys
  
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• Is your new phone really your friend? | Oliver Burkeman

  29-09-2017 16:00
  Our hardwired tendency toward laziness means once we’ve been persuaded to adopt certain pseudo-conveniences, we won’t want to give them upThe new iPhone 8, as you probably couldn’t help learning a few weeks back, boasts “wireless charging that’s truly effortless”, meaning that instead of having to plug it into the wall, you simply place it on a special pad. Which you then plug into the wall. If you’re struggling to imagine the kind of person who finds th
  
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• Tired of plain old vegetables? Spice 'em up with some flavour

  29-09-2017 15:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I am smaller than a dime, and though I am cool, I can also burn. I can be many colours, but also none at all. I am a household name, ...
  
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• In Pakistan's coal rush, some women drivers break cultural barriers

  29-09-2017 15:46
  ISLAMKOT, Pakistan (Reuters) - As Pakistan bets on cheap coal in the Thar desert to resolve its energy crisis, a select group of women is eyeing a road out of poverty by snapping up truck-driving...
  
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• UK hotel tells customers to dial back Michelin expectations

  29-09-2017 15:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Is success written in a star?A Michelin-starred Scottish hotel is telling customers they should no longer expect the frills of a restaurant featured in the guide. Don Matheson ...
  
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• Golden getaway: cost, safety prompt more Chinese tourists to stay closer to home

  29-09-2017 15:21
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - As China's army of tourists prepares for next week's 'Golden Week' vacation, the hottest destinations aren't Paris, New York or Tokyo. Instead, a cooling economy means...
  
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• ‘There’s one thing worse than a drunken yob, and that’s a drunken nob’: a deb makes a splash

  29-09-2017 15:00
  Charles McDowell recalls misbehaving at a debutante dance, July 1982I met Peter Townend, the social editor of Tatler, at a Conservative summer ball in 1980 or 1981. I was in my early 20s, living in Kensington and working for Tiffany as part of their sales team. Peter came up to me and said: “Would you like to come to some of my parties?” And I, not really knowing what they were, but being young and game for a laugh, said yes. I gave him my name and address, and then a&
  
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• Flavour Bastard, London W1: ‘There’s me thinking Sexy Fish was as bad as it got’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  29-09-2017 15:00
  Rather than the screechy jazz, Nero should be fiddling somewhere in the background By the time you read this, everything that can possibly be said about this place’s attention-seeking name will have probably been said by other more rapid-response observers. (Re: that attention-seeking – hey, it works.) So I’ll content myself with telling you about it in action. The name? Brace yourselves: it’s Flavour Bastard. Roll that around your tongue: flaaavour baaastaard. And there&
  
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• Experience: I swim to work

  29-09-2017 15:00
  Sometimes I hear commuters yelling at each other up on the riverbank while I’m having fun watching ducklings and squirrelsIt started two years ago. I run a summer arts festival in Munich called the Kulturstrand, at the Ludwigsbrücke, a bridge that stands over the river Isar, where I have an office. I work there most days and when I do, I swim there. I’m one of those people who likes to swim in all conditions – I’ll swim in the Atlantic when it’s 10 degrees
  
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• It’s time to talk about the pseudoscience corrupting the abortion debate

  29-09-2017 14:50
  On the eve of the final March for Choice ahead of Ireland’s referendum on abortion rights next year, a scientist explains why we urgently need to challenge the dogma
  On Saturday 30 September 2017, the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) – a pro-choice alliance of which I am a member – is hosting its sixth annual March for Choice in Dublin city centre. It is a particularly significant event, as it will be our last march before next year’s referendum over whether to repeal the e
  
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• Hot and sweet and red all over, Serbian village hangs peppers out to dry

  29-09-2017 14:08
  DONJA LOKOSNICA, Serbia (Reuters) - The village of Donja Lokosnica has turned red, as the pepper harvest hanging out to dry on almost every wall brings a wash of intense color to this Serbian farming...
  
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• My life in sex: ‘I split my time between lovers so I have a reliable supply of male company’

  29-09-2017 14:00
  The woman with six loversIn my 20s I lived with a man my age, but he was a controlling alcoholic. The tepid sex dropped to twice a year, and he didn’t like it if I masturbated. I tried counselling, but it didn’t work.I left at 30 and placed a personal ad seeking older men, because younger ones seemed too much hassle. I met several, and got on well with a caring man of 68. It was amazing to feel appreciated and we made love that night. He was retired and said if I lived
  
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• Gillian Burke: ‘I am a product of generations of people moving between continents’

  29-09-2017 14:00
  The BBC Autumnwatch presenter talks about growing up in Kenya and Vienna, her family’s roots around the world and her love of jumping off thingsWhere we grew up on the outskirts of Nairobi was this very outdoors existence. On a clear day we could see across the north to Mount Kenya. In the holidays my brother, James, who is five years older than me, and his friends had motocross bikes and we used to tear around. We had experiments: testing our parachute-making skills with bedsheets and lau
  
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• All the places I’ll never live: a flat without a whodunnit mystery

  29-09-2017 13:59
  If you’re a member of generation rent, could a one-bed hi-spec Croydon development solve the questions asked by your inner detective?This week I’ve been wondering if the battle of the wifi network names taking place in our block of flats is the beginning of a Hitchcock film come true – a modern-day tale akin to Rear Window, just begging to be called Rear Windows XP.This unlikely thriller started a few days ago, when a note appeared in the entrance to the flats. “I left my
  
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• These 4 Eye-Catching Mantel Design Ideas Will Get You Ready for Fall

  29-09-2017 13:00
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page.It’s time to warm your mantle up for fall. Image: Assyrian Star Construction IncShop a similar look: Candles | LanternsWe’re big fans of seasonally inspired décor, especially where fall is concerned. After all, who wouldn’t want to incorporate the same cozy feeling that’s inspired by changing leaves and a slight chill in the air into
  
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• Popcorn boom points to 'third golden age' for America's favorite snack

  29-09-2017 13:00
  Movies may bomb but with year-on-year sales up 16.9% popcorn – whether eaten at home or at the theater – is set to emulate its popularity in the 30s and 80sHollywood can bomb at the box office and television can shrivel to the size of a phone but one element of American movie-watching remains sacrosanct: popcorn.The seed first popped by Native Americans has sailed through upheaval in the entertainment industry and ever-shifting dietary trends to enter an apparent “third golden
  
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• I have been single for so long that I am too scared to date again

  29-09-2017 12:47
  Ever since splitting up with my last boyfriend five years ago, I haven’t dated or had sex. I think about it, but it just feels like too much of a burdenFor the past five years, I have been completely single: no dating, no sex. My ex-boyfriend moved away without even saying goodbye or offering any kind of explanation. Only then did I realise that, for him, it was only a hook-up. It hurt me so badly that I decided to focus on my career and my son. So now I find myself at 34 with a good caree
  
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• 'You look so beautiful!': Indonesians celebrate the dead in ancient ritual

  29-09-2017 12:37
  TORAJA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Yosefina Tumanan, a resident of the remote Toraja region of Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, was thrilled to see her sister-in-law.
  
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• Museums offer a peek into the secret world of Yves Saint Laurent

  29-09-2017 12:06
  First of two museums dedicated to the shy man who revolutionised women’s fashion has been inaugurated in ParisThe first of two new museums dedicated to Yves Saint Laurent has been opened in Paris, offering a glimpse into the world of the shy, mysterious man who revolutionised women’s fashion.The Paris mansion where Saint Laurent shook up dress codes for more than three decades has been turned into an exhibition space for his haute couture creations. A larger museum, also paid for by
  
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• Britons open wallets to secure White Cliffs of Dover for nation

  29-09-2017 11:03
  LONDON (Reuters) - A British charity seeking to buy land abutting the White Cliffs of Dover to secure the landscape for the nation says it has hit its target to raise one million pounds ($1.3...
  
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• From Beyoncé to Kendall: the stylist who turned internet culture into fashion

  29-09-2017 10:00
  She was behind Beyoncé’s infamous pregnancy shot and has reinvented the look of Insta-models like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner. Meet Marni Senofonte, the super-stylist who knows what’s on trend way before you doBreakfast with Marni Senofonte, LA-based super-stylist to Beyoncé and Kendall Jenner, was never going to be a slice of toast. She emerges from the lift lobby in her smart Mayfair hotel, hugs me, finds us a corner table, takes off her sunglasses, hails a waitress
  
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• The Cors Country House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire: hotel review

  29-09-2017 07:30
  In a town rich with Dylan Thomas heritage, chef Nick Priestland is scaling back his highly-regarded restaurant to focus on B&B accommodation. Well, that was the planLovely Laugharne, on the Taf estuary, with its grand but dilapidated 12th-century castle and views over Carmarthen Bay is linked in verse and visitors to Dylan Thomas. On the way into town, we pass St Martin’s Church, where the poet is buried and Brown’s Hotel, where he guzzled and gossiped (and gave out the bar&rsquo
  
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• Novel recipes: linguine alla cecca from Heartburn by Nora Ephron

  29-09-2017 07:30
  While reading Ephron’s classic comic novel, Kate Young finds a simple pasta dish, so delicate ‘that it’s almost like eating salad’Scroll down for the recipeAs for linguine alla cecca, it’s a hot pasta with a cold tomato and basil sauce, and it’s so light and delicate that it’s almost like eating a salad.Heartburn, Nora Ephron Continue reading...
  
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• Gloria Steinem honoured by sex assault defence group

  29-09-2017 07:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BOSTON - Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has been honoured in Boston by a sexual assault legal defence group.The Victim Rights Law Center presented its 2017 Leadership Award to the renowned ......
  
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• Yves Saint Laurent designs get new airing at Paris museum

  29-09-2017 01:06
  PARIS (Reuters) - A new museum showcasing the creations of late French couturier Yves Saint Laurent opens in Paris next week, offering visitors an intimate glimpse into his studio and how he pulled...
  
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• Sudoku 3866 hard

  29-09-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Kakuro 1571 medium

  29-09-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).
  Buy the Guardian next Friday or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,788

  29-09-2017 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,315

  29-09-2017 01:00
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• FDA approves Lilly pill for common advanced breast cancer

  29-09-2017 00:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  U.S. regulators have approved a new medicine for treating a common type of breast cancer after it has spread to other parts of the body.Eli Lilly's Verzenio was approved Thursday ...
  
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• FDA requires opioid makers to develop doctor training

  29-09-2017 00:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The Food and Drug Administration is requiring manufacturers of the most widely prescribed painkillers to provide extensive training to doctors in an attempt to reduce the number of patients who ......
  
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